first principles
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One analyst who predicted it from first principles was Joachim Klement, a managing director at U.K. investment bank Panmure Liberum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I said we have to tear everything down to first principles and rebuild it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The majority sees constitutional privacy as capable of adapting to technological change without abandoning first principles.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
The proponents of this new set of first principles, most prominently among them the 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, called it progressivism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
